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Rob Dex

@NewRobDex

Journalist. Ex-Evening Standard and Press Association, now HENI News. DMs open. [email protected]

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The last daily Evening Standard went to print today. I’ll be hanging around for a few more weeks but the new look Standard will do just fine without an Arts Correspondent. It’s been an honour and a total delight for most of my almost decade in the job and I’ll miss it. 1/5


Bishop of Southwark season comes around earlier every year

14 words and not a single one wasted 👏👏👏

jamiesont's tweet image. 14 words and not a single one wasted 👏👏👏


Maybe we need more Kiwi-West Cumbrians?

Ben Stokes! Truly, one of the great Englishmen of all time. Philip Sidney, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill – he's up there with them. When all else is bleak, Ben Stokes can guarantee to swell your heart with pride



Todays the day I discover Mani from The Stone Roses called one of his sons Gene Clark


I swear I heard someone in the crowd shout ‘shoot!’ and he did!


Nice slice of downbeat postwar cult fiction repackaged as lurid pulp and all for just 99p

NewRobDex's tweet image. Nice slice of downbeat postwar cult fiction repackaged as lurid pulp and all for just 99p

In a better world I’d like to think both families have come up with this dreadful story just so somewhere someone can buy that sub a pint to celebrate a great headline

A great tragedy that the online version of this piece has lost its print headline, 'Ramsay's Hitching Nightmare'. thetimes.com/comment/column…



I love the way this Sun story describes paying cash as if it’s an alien activity “Hundreds of buyers flowed into Hounslow heath from the crack of dawn, paying a £3 cash entry fee before purchasing tools cash-in-hand with notes from their wallets.”


Didn’t realise Jim Broadbent was a French spook

France’s premier spy agency, DGSE,has been under intense scrutiny following a series of strategic failures. Macron dismissed its former chief, Bernard Émié, in Dec after the agency failed to anticipate major geopolitical events — from the secret signing of the AUKUS defense pact…

TheresaAFallon's tweet image. France’s premier spy agency, DGSE,has been under intense scrutiny following a series of strategic failures. Macron dismissed its former chief, Bernard Émié, in Dec after the agency failed to anticipate major geopolitical events — from the secret signing of the AUKUS defense pact…


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Come for the NFL gags and stay for the art news and new updated website heni.com/newsletter/new…


Whit man in Hammersmith Palais

Whit Sunday night special, 1977 at the Hammersmith Palais.

OldLondonW14's tweet image. Whit Sunday night special, 1977 at the Hammersmith Palais.


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